STOIC in a Sentence

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1. We knew she must be in pain, despite her stoic attitude.

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 Meanings and Examples of STOIC
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stoic
 a.  one who is seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by joy, grief, pleasure, or pain
Classic Sentence:
1  It was from her that he inherited his detachment from the sumptuary side of life: the stoic's carelessness of material things, combined with the Epicurean's pleasure in them.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
2  The men, pitching forward insanely, had burst into cheerings, moblike and barbaric, but tuned in strange keys that can arouse the dullard and the stoic.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
Example Sentence:
1  The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all; and to "burst" with boldness and good-will into "the silent sea" of their souls is often to confer on them the first of obligations.
2  I wasn't particularly stoic when I had my flu shot; I squealed like a stuck pig.
3  We knew she must be in pain, despite her stoic attitude.